What do you miss about After Hours?

wonderfullife

Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram have all emerged in the last 10 years and with it has seen a change in the way we interact, an evolution (desecration) in the way we communicate and a threat to the hallowed message forum.

In short a lot of sh1t has changed.

During the golden era of After Hours (2008-2012), there would very rarely be a single thread that didn't contain at least one of the following posts:


"Pics or GTFO." - if you revealed yourself as female.

"PM Sent " - to any said females who committed the mortal sin of confirming they are indeed single.

"+1" instead of actually typing up a post on why you agree with someone, +1 had you covered.

"FYP" - the old 'I hilariously edited your post'.

"Massive Use of Spaces to get to the...."

















*punchline in really small writing

"Pighead in epic third-person hilarity posts"


"Thinly veiled "I have a ..." Boast" - when anyone mentioned anything actually positive about their life, like having a girlfriend or a fancy cheese grater.

"About three fiddy" - the only mature response to any question related to numbers.

"In before the Lock" - when you knew a thread was going nowhere. (Ok smart-asses knock yourselves out with reply #1).

"Your ma" - 2 decisive words in anyone's lexicon.


A salute to the old days when we were a lot younger and slightly less un-cool.

diomed

It got s few thanks the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvllQl5t4Ww

frozenfrozen

Blast it with piss

And its yore ma

me_irl

Facekicker, flutter... "cool story"... There's so little!

GerryDerpy

Being offended meant fcuk all back then.

I like cheese

Thelomen Toblackai

me_irl wrote: »

Facekicker, flutter... "cool story"... There's so little!

It really highlights how bad this place is when a fella offering kicks in the face, an idiot talking about taking shíts along with "blast it with piss" and "yore ma" being posted in every single thread is considered the golden age of the forum....

diomed

Threads getting derailed massively, like the one about Abercrombie & Fitch.
The thread was about beautiful people only in their advertising and hiring, and body shaming.

The thread became a discussion between two people about what they had bought there, what you couldn't get in the Irish store, what they bought on their recent shopping trips to the USA.

wonderfullife

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

It really highlights how bad this place is when a fella offering kicks in the face, an idiot talking about taking shíts along with "blast it with piss" and "yore ma" being posted in every single thread is considered the golden age of the forum....

Next you'll be telling me Gigli isn't a good movie.

The Moldy Gowl

The lore of pighead and all them unfunny gowls are insufferable.

Its just watching a group of unfunny middle aged people trying to be funny, the people who adore them i mean.

Thelomen Toblackai

wonderfullife wrote: »

Next you'll be telling me Gigli isn't a good movie.

What the hell is Gigli ?

wonderfullife

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

What the hell is Gigli ?

I'm getting the feeling you might be under the age of 20

Thelomen Toblackai

wonderfullife wrote: »

I'm getting the feeling you might be under the age of 20

I'm neither under the age of 20 or familiar with this movie you speak of. But I get the feeling I'm better off not knowing about it.

Rackstar

Facekicker?

mahamageehad

I miss when people just enjoyed the site instead of complaining that the best days are gone.

me_irl

Rackstar wrote: »

Facekicker?

Face.... kicker....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055523322

Surreptitious

The best things are always in the past. People are obsessed about nostalgia and seem to forget the past was possibly as crap as what's going on right now.

#pessimism

riffmongous

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

It really highlights how bad this place is when a fella offering kicks in the face, an idiot talking about taking shíts along with "blast it with piss" and "yore ma" being posted in every single thread is considered the golden age of the forum....

You needed to be there I guess

I miss threads on Poles eating swans, now it's just all about the muslims

me_irl

Surreptitious wrote: »

The best things are always in the past. People are obsessed about nostalgia and seem to forget the past was possibly as crap as what's going on right now.

#pessimism

Ah j'member?

#maudlin

Gatling

After a forced 3 day break i miss it all

mahamageehad

mahamageehad wrote: »

I miss when people just enjoyed the site instead of complaining that the best days are gone.

Is that you in your photo hey?

mikemac2

Dating stories

Feeky Magee and his teacher
Bryan and that Ciara who worked in the local petrol station

Spot the re-reg

wakka12

I don't miss all the stupid phrases. AH just used to be really ****ing funny with really ****ing witty posters, don't know what happened. Its all gender and immigration now, no interesting quirky threads

But it still has its moments. And its good for news updates, and get people's opinions on current issues

riffmongous

mikemac2 wrote: »

Dating stories

Feeky Magee and his teacher
Bryan and that Ciara who worked in the local petrol station

Spot the re-reg

Here don't mention re-regs or the thread'll be locked :pac:

RayM

The threads about how AH "isn't as good as it used to be" aren't as good as they used to be.

Mister Vain

RayM wrote: »

The threads about how AH "isn't as good as it used to be" aren't as good as they used to be.

Yes even they've declined.

recyclebin

The list of legendary boards threads hasn't been updated since early 2013

The Backwards Man

Place used to be full of funny cuts, now it's just full of cnuts

Allah snackbar

What the fcuk was face kicker about , he asked if you'd like a kick in the face , if that's the golden era I'm away off out of here , come to think of it there's very few forums with the diversity of after hours .

Forestry and farming forum , they just agree with one another and hound out anyone that doesn't agree with them or goes against farming

Cycling forums , every one in a car is a cnut

Soccer forums , Irish people fighting over English teams and referring to " their team " in the first person

Lgbt forum , I'm a victim of discrimination in Ireland in 2017 , this must be what it was like for black people in Alabama in the 50s

Religious and atheists forums , my non belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds is more important than your belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds , praise be unto Allah or whoever the fcuk you're into these days

At least in after hours you can have a bit of banter and a bit of lateral thinking , it's not one big circle jerk of people agreeing with everything in the op and back slapping each other on their similarities

I could post in a few other forums like farming or soccer but I think too much agreement is as bad as too much disagreement , in after hours people seem to get it right a lot of the time

mikemac2

Sex & sexuality forum. It ain't durty. Actually it's quite boring.

Not sure if it even exists anymore

wakka12

Allah snackbar wrote: »

What the fcuk was face kicker about , he asked if you'd like a kick in the face , if that's the golden era I'm away off out of here , come to think of it there's very few forums with the diversity of after hours .

Forestry and farming forum , they just agree with one another and hound out anyone that doesn't agree with them or goes against farming

Cycling forums , every one in a car is a cnut

Soccer forums , Irish people fighting over English teams and referring to " their team " in the first person

Lgbt forum , I'm a victim of discrimination in Ireland in 2017 , this must be what it was like for black people in Alabama in the 50s

Religious and atheists forums , my non belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds is more important than your belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds , praise be unto Allah or whoever the fcuk you're into these days

At least in after hours you can have a bit of banter and a bit of lateral thinking , it's not one big circle jerk of people agreeing with everything in the op and back slapping each other on their similarities

I could post in a few other forums like farming or soccer but I think too much agreement is as bad as too much disagreement , in after hours people seem to get it right a lot of the time

True. most subforums are comparatively dead in terms of number of posters as well

The Moldy Gowl

Allah snackbar wrote: »

What the fcuk was face kicker about , he asked if you'd like a kick in the face , if that's the golden era I'm away off out of here , come to think of it there's very few forums with the diversity of after hours .

Forestry and farming forum , they just agree with one another and hound out anyone that doesn't agree with them or goes against farming

Cycling forums , every one in a car is a cnut

Soccer forums , Irish people fighting over English teams and referring to " their team " in the first person

Lgbt forum , I'm a victim of discrimination in Ireland in 2017 , this must be what it was like for black people in Alabama in the 50s

Religious and atheists forums , my non belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds is more important than your belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds , praise be unto Allah or whoever the fcuk you're into these days

At least in after hours you can have a bit of banter and a bit of lateral thinking , it's not one big circle jerk of people agreeing with everything in the op and back slapping each other on their similarities

I could post in a few other forums like farming or soccer but I think too much agreement is as bad as too much disagreement , in after hours people seem to get it right a lot of the time

Have a **** and stay away from yourself

Son0vagun

recyclebin wrote: »

The list of legendary boards threads hasn't been updated since early 2013

This is true, still the best thing I ever did.

DrumSteve

I was there.

It was okay,bit of a circle jerk though among the usuals.

Allah snackbar

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

Have a **** and stay away from yourself

Oxymoron ???

Jesus Wept

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

It really highlights how bad this place is when a fella offering kicks in the face, an idiot talking about taking shíts along with "blast it with piss" and "yore ma" being posted in every single thread is considered the golden age of the forum....

Bitter salty tears.

AllForIt

I find Boards.ie way more engaging and entertaining than anything I ever got from Facebook and the rest which I largely don't really use much anymore now that the novelty of them has fully worn off. Educational too I might add.

Anesthetize

The Rock & Metal forum isn't what it used to be when I joined under my original account in 2006. There were lots of great posters and interesting discussions back then.

These days it's middle-aged bores discussing only two topics - Guns n' Roses and Metallica.

FizzleSticks

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Beyondgone

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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It's the old Mods and Rockers battle.. the Mods always win. It's Brighton all over again.

Stoner

After hours is still a good place to go on the internet imo. It use to be one of the few places you could go. So it attracted more people and or people posted a larger array of subject matter here.

My oldest account that I can't find now is 2001.
I think these days that there are more specialised sites that do a better job for particular activities. Say Facebook for the photography forums etc.

I use to meet people from boards, I have friends from boards but I use to notice that a lot of men were on boards to get women, or at least to interact with them. I don't know if any of the relationships lasted.

They'd do stupid things because it was different or you could post about it. Some of it was sad and desperate, a lot of them fought over women, some of the women craved the attention. I think boards offered both types something the real-world couldn't.
Yet some of it was great, funny and genuine, it out weighed the other stuff. There are specialised sites just for dating now, so boards has lost out on the men showing off element.

I completed a thesis on metaworlds and how they encroached on real life, this was years ago. I recruited some people for surveys for metaworlds here but essentially boards was one too, full of people acting out a different part of their personality online, trying to find themselves, to fit in.

The world has moved on I think. People are also a little bit more afraid to be different in different ways, it's more about treating your dog like a child, in your face non religious posts by people who think it makes them sound intelligent when they joke about the faith of others, or cycling threads.
Cycle to the dog creche on a Tuesday, the day you decided is your transgender day, laughing at Santy God as you try to find ignorant motorists to sort out and post about later.

The soccer forum was always a train wreck to be fair.

I think people prefer self promoting mediums more now and just being pighead doesn't cut it if only boards members know it.

But it's still a great place to go as far as I'm concerned. I made good friends here and received great advice here too.

Werido

Back when it wasn't ground zero for the pc, sjw morality police and you could have a bit of craic without crybabies calling for the mods to SHUT IT DOWN.

mcsaddle

blast he she it with pi**

endacl

Werido wrote: »

Back when it wasn't ground zero for the pc, sjw morality police and you could have a bit of craic without crybabies calling for the mods to SHUT IT DOWN.

Back when you joined, in May 2017?

Oh, to revisit the halcyon days of your first post.... When was it...? Earlier on, IIRC?

Werido

hurr durr I never even heard of burds.ie until now...hurrr...

mcsaddle

endacl wrote: »

Back when you joined, in May 2017?

Oh, to revisit the halcyon days of your first post.... When was it...? Earlier on, IIRC?

well said enda,

why don't you tell him/her to fukk hemselves

attack the may regs

make bords great again

endacl

Werido wrote: »

hurr durr I never even heard of burds.ie until now...hurrr...

What was your last account called, just out of interest?

endacl

mcsaddle wrote: »

well said enda,

why don't you tell him/her to fukk hemselves

Coz I'm polite an' sh1t.

Werido

It was called 'I ****ed yer ma'

endacl

Werido wrote: »

It was called 'I ****ed yer ma'

No, that wasn't it. C'mon now. You can do better!

Stoner

endacl wrote:

What was your last account called, just out of interest?

Bubbles!!!

Remember that one old timers and reregs

Don't even mention the name !!!